| 单词 | iron lung |
| 释义 | iron lung in British Englishnoun 1. an airtight metal cylinder enclosing the entire body up to the neck and providing artificial respiration when the respiratory muscles are paralysed, as by poliomyelitis 2. Irish informal a gas container used in dispensing beer iron lung in American English US a large metal respirator that encloses all of the body but the head, used for maintainingartificial respiration in a person who has difficulty in breathing as a result of poliomyelitis, gas poisoning, etc. Examples of 'iron lung' in a sentence |
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